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Carla, Basking

Submitted by Alejandro Adams on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 3:11pm.
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It's never too early for promotion and never the wrong time to hear someone say, "What a knock-out performance."

Chattanooga-based filmmaker Jarrod Whaley interviews Carla Pauli at his site Oak Street Films, noting that he saw a working copy of Canary. His eagerness to talk it over with Carla speaks volumes, and I think she's a well-chosen representative of the forty-odd jaw-droppingly-good performances we managed to pack into this little epic.

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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